Audio index

(00:01:30)Experiences living in Wendell, MA; establishing links within the lesbian community

(00:04:28)How the town of Wendell drew many lesbians to live there

(00:08:15)In the mid-1970s, Zak was offered a job at a women’s center called Women’s Works in Athol, MA; discussion of the argument
within the National Organization of Women (NOW) about working with and allowing lesbians within its ranks

(00:10:39)Further discussion of Women’s Works and how women’s centers developed out of community needs in the 1970s

(00:12:18)Men’s responses and perceptions of women-only spaces

(00:13:15)Projects with Women’s Works, including the Wendell Women’s Music Festival; more on men’s challenges to women-only events

(00:15:24)Women’s music in Western Massachusetts; a list of some musical artists and bands

(00:17:15)The building and development of houses and the women’s community in Wendell; collective building projects and education on
building and sustainable forms of energy, solar energy, for example

(00:22:13)Development of state funded domestic violence programs, whereas women’s communities had been responsible for working with
and helping survivors of domestic violence

(00:24:00)Formation of NELCWIT, the New England Learning Center for Women in Transition

(00:26:45)The closing of Women’s Works

(00:29:25)Zak transitions from working with NELCWIT to involvement with environmental activism; moving from working with primarily women
around the women’s movement to organizing with men in environmental actions; bringing feminism into environmental politics

(00:31:40)Perspectives on separatism, and working with men in environmentalism as an opportunity to think about separatist politics

(00:32:47)Working with People’s Projection; Zak buys the Wendell Country Store

(00:34:00)Being the only business owner in Wendell; the Wendell Country Store as a center for lesbian activity and organizing around
the struggle against Route 2

(00:37:58)The founding of the Full Moon Coffeehouse in January 1985

(00:39:08)Establishing the Wendell Lesbian Library

(00:40:30)Lesbians active in Wendell politics; Zak was elected to the Wendell Select Board in 1990